Elyse's Trip to Thailand

Trip to Phangnga

2007-04-15T11:05:00.000-07:00

so we had a late start today but we got the whole family in the car and drove 1hr 1/2 and went to the next province close by for the day. At first we went to this boat pier, but looked a little sketchy to say the least.. so we decided to find another peir. grandmas and all hoped in the boat to the famous "james bond island" where in one of the movies was filmed (not sure which one tho, cant say im a huge fan) with limestone slate cliffs and chrystal green waters surely took my breath away. after that we did a like sea kayaking in and out thru caves in mid ocean, and around some of the beautiful coast, i was sure to get some great photography in! After that we drove over to a muslim fishing village, to have a great seafood lunch. to end the day we did a little bit of shopping and saw a beatiful sunset on the way home!

Boat Lagoon!

2007-02-12T04:05:00.000-08:00

my host mom Ning & card
my Family: bas, me : saroj ning &card
Me & Karin
the sunset when we got there:)
the 1 out of the many yachts there!
this is a beautiful restraunt, boat lagoon and resort. this is my 2nd time here, very $$ if u dont have connections:P my host dad can go to alot of places free, bc of his business. he owns his own printing shop called "phuket offset printing" and sometimes he offers half the price of his usual customers for some kind of use of thier service, here was free dinner!

Rotary Sports & Family day

2007-02-11T04:50:00.000-08:00

it was a awesome day, got more sunburnt tho lol!:)

Rotary Sports & family day

2007-02-08T03:55:00.000-08:00

Rotary Sports & Family day

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Rotary Sports & family day!

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kayaking

yellow team
Everyone!

Monkey Temple

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this was a temple in phangna the next province to phuket, lots of hungry monkeys, and beautiful buddha figures.

Rotary House's for the Tsunami Victims

2007-02-08T03:17:00.000-08:00

this was really sad and a good thing to see, how people from all over the world came together and helped these people back on thier feet.

Polio plus

2007-02-08T03:11:00.000-08:00

Off to the beach

2007-01-19T20:12:00.000-08:00

katies little brother "nong ton'
me and ann
katie and ann
me and om
so we had a day off school so we all went to the beach, went to the mall for some shopping and then ate lunch and by about 5 we went back home.

Living with Tsunami

2007-01-19T20:07:00.000-08:00

me and katie
thai dance
drawings of tsunami
every year they have a day to remeber all of people that were lost in this horrific day.

M6/M3 PALLET

2007-01-19T19:59:00.000-08:00

May me &May
me & air
ice may maid & put
ice &pui

M6/M3 PALLET

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me & gig
pretty ladies of 6/2
me and the disco men;)

M6/M3 PALLET

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pear :)
me & doung:) 6/6
haha we werent ready 6/6
aww i like this one:) 6/6

M6/M3 PALLET

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me & dutch
nong & me:)
airr!
my girlies

M6/M3 PALLET

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me and a good friend, he bought me my liverpool jersey:)
fern and me!
me may sam and may
me and pear! wOO 6/2

M6/M3 PALLET

2007-01-19T19:38:00.000-08:00

everyone wanted my picture today, some people i didnt even kno:P
me & koon
he wanted a pic with marilyn monroe too:P
6/5

M6/M3 PALLET

2007-01-19T19:33:00.000-08:00

me & dutch
me & chee
wan me & pui
me & ping :)

M6/M3 PALLET

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me & Kirk
some hotties
krin tap, and tam
koon & dutch

M6 /M3 PALLET

2007-01-19T19:21:00.000-08:00

my lovely 6/2 class!
again:)
getttin groovy' baby!
my buddies in 6/2

this parade, is to kick off the soccer tournament, wich im playin in aswel!:) our class was dress for the 60's style and i was marilyn monroe. it was a fun day:)

baan lu pee tuk

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me and the little girlies
this one is adorable!
katie and the boys
me and katie!

Baan lu pee tuk(orphange)

2007-01-19T19:05:00.000-08:00

the kids waiting for lunch
waiting to eat
me passing out lunch

Every week i go and volenteer at the orpahnge, there is about 60 kids all together, thier not all orphans but there is a few. before it used to be a place where the mothers who were in prison put thier children if they were pregnant. but now its a daycare mixed as well. the kids are so loving and so cute too. some of my daily chores there are watching the kids & making sure they dont get into fights or anything, also get them lunch and help pass it out, another is after lunch bath them and help them get dressed for bed. when they have nap time we have a break, and then we come back and jus play with them till thier parents come. i love it there, but its not funded by the government only by donations.

Bas's Birthday

2007-01-19T18:57:00.000-08:00

bas and his friends!
katie being katie :P
katie and my bear arm, gave me
me and katie

there was so many people here for the birthday, all of bas friends and friends of my host parents aswell, they had bbq, spagetti and chips that i made, french fries, pop and all sorts of good stuff. the best part was the cake:) haha it was so good!

Happy New Year!

2007-01-19T18:51:00.000-08:00

little jay
card & ning
ning's cuzin and jay
me and air at a manepeens hotel.

my new years was celebrated at home with a bbq and relatives of my host family, and around 7;30 air picked me up and went to manepeens hotel, we planed to stay there for the countdowm, but it wasnt exciting so we jus left. later chelsea called me and we did the countdown together haha. yes over the phone.

Karins Parents arrive in Phuket

2007-01-19T18:45:00.000-08:00

view point of chalong bay
view of coral island
me, adjan-suansri, karin, karins parents, and ferne
ferne & her cuzin, Karin and Me

so karins family came to phuket, we showed them phuket town, patong, all the other beaches and jus relaxed at the hotel for some swimming.

Krabi Trip 2

2006-12-25T01:57:00.000-08:00

B-e-a-utiful right??!

the boat that took us to the islands!

Krabi Trip 1

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My 3rd Family

Phuket Zoo

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Bas & card
May Bas Card & me +monkey
Me & Monkey :P
Aligator show

My 2nd Family

2006-12-25T01:40:00.000-08:00

this is my house, and one of the 6dogs shadow! and yup theres the pool:P

its been awhile, so here she is!

2006-12-19T05:49:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone!!!!
my mood right now is ever so excited, why might you ask? well many reasons! first of all, the internet guy from TOT finally came and fixed the internet at home. lots of updates for all you curious readers. Also right now ive been on break and jus been relaxing, the other YE's(karin) parents came to phuket so i have been showing them the ropes. the past two weeks it has been pretty fun here with this family, i went to phuket zoo. saw a tiger, elephants, monkeys, exotic birds, a alagator show, and all sorts of different wildlife here in phuket. We also took a two day/1night trip to krabi province, it was so much fun we went to 4 islands, went snorkling, swimming and saw so many beautiful islands. My parents are goin to chaing mai this thursday untill sunday, im staying at the hotel with karin and her parents. should be exciting. i was sick for two weeks with really bad pains in my left side of my stomach, it was constant for the two weeks, i went to the hospital got so many drugs and did a few tests, but of course the doctors had no idea what was really wrong with me. anyway im fine now but im sure the pain will come back again. lorne and mary are coming next month on the 14th, so i cant wait to show them around. i am absolutly in love with thailand and i have no idea what i will do when i have to leave this beautiful island. My thai has gotten better and better daily , the difficult part is the writing. i miss my friends and family so much.
i gotta go for now!!
lots of love!!
xoxoxo Elyse

My New Family~

2006-11-14T18:07:00.001-08:00

Hello Everyone,
wow so i firstly have to say, i feel at home for first time, since my first family. this family is so great. I live next door to katie wich is pretty cool i mean we can hangout and go running together. my Family has a pool, but the village has its own too, very big. I have 2 younger brothers, Card 7 and Bhat 12, and a couzin who stays at the house May14. my host dad is rotarian and they own thier own business, Phuket offset printing. they own two stores one in phuket town and another in Kathu. My family has 7 dogs, 6 are golden retrivers, but four are puppies, soo cute!. I love this family, ive asked to stay longer and i think i can. i Share a room with my sister/cousin. Last night i made dinner for them, spaghetti. it was soo good too:D. this weekend we might be goin to Phi phi Island. Every Sunday with this family is family day, the shop is closed so they go on some day trips around phuket, my little brother card loves fishing so we might do that. Actually last night my little brother went to the hospital, he was sick, im told hes okay but i dont really know what happened. my family only speaks a little english but that doesnt matter my thai is very good now. Tonight i have rotary, and im finally doing my speech on canada, and i will say it all in thai! aha Right now im in school, i dont have class so im killing time on the computer. to sum up how i feel right now, i am extremely happy and i love thailand that much more!
The other day i found out that theres a college here in phuket that i can study hotel managment, so i dont have to go to huaHin anymore, i was really discouraged about moving off phuket but now i can stay so im am super happy, hmmm i think this is the first time mentioning on here, but the past few months ive been thinking seriously of coming back to phuket a year after i return to canada, and study in thailand. i can continue learning thai and also get my education for a 3rd of the price i would pay in canada. My course is in english so i have no problem in that department. Living in thailand is quite cheap especially for a studnet. i am very serious about this, and its something i really want to do.
Well i better get back to my studies, talk to everyone soon!
Xoxo Elyse
misssing everyone<3

The news goin on lately;

2006-11-12T01:19:00.000-08:00

Hey Everyone, hope ya loved the pictures!
So some stuff thats been goin on with me lately is... i finally got my laptop back, i started back in school, new semester and everything! great to see my friends again, i got sick for 3 days, but im okay now, im movin'g to a new family tmr for10days, then im goin to adjan suanswri's family for the rest of my year! there was loi gratong festival on the 5th, so me and aam went it was fun, but it also rained so that suckd, candles didnt stay lit long, but it was pretty! so today ive been busy packin emailing, and updating this blog, so u wont complain anymore haha. anyway thats all for right now,
love &miss u all!!
xoxo Elyse:)

Surat to phuket!

2006-11-12T01:17:00.000-08:00

night Boat to Koh Samuoi
phangna
phangna again!

Chaing mai

2006-11-12T01:13:00.000-08:00

im not to happy about dying, but ferne seems preety layed back lol
i said lets go back to canada...
so away we went..
its alot colder than phuket!

Chaing mai

2006-11-12T01:11:00.000-08:00

yawning
more sleep
diver getting eaten by fish lol
crazy fish

Chaing mai

2006-11-12T01:10:00.000-08:00

a river
orchid
PandaS!
aww hes drooling.. lap sabai mai?

Maesa Elephant camp

2006-11-12T01:07:00.000-08:00

entrance

me feeding the baby elephant!
me + Elephant :)

Party/Temple

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Fire show, yup hes breathing fire
ballon candles
the heaven temple
most of everyone on the tour

Chiang Rai- Party at the hotel

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in tha dress
dinner time
northern food
it was good, but i prefer southern!

Mae Soi/Burma

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the boarder
ferne and adjan
the market
and again

Chiang Rai-kings mothers palace

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northern flags
me in the garden
and again, beautiful right?!
the huge garden

Chaing Rai-kings mothers palace

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on the veranda

infront
infront again

Chiang Rai-Doi Tung mtn

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snake buddha
the bell
view from the kings mothers house

Chaing Rai-Doi tung

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temple

elephant statues
if u pray for something, and u get what u prayed for thai people tell the monk thier wish came true and put thier figure somewhere around the temple.

Chang Rai-Doi tung mtn

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northern flags
the happy buddha

temple

Chaing Rai

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in front of the hotel
me + buss

Doi tung mtn

Grandpalace

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Grand palace

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Bangkok-(grandpalace)

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Bangkok!

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me at the grand palace entrance
me adjan fern
tee adjan ferne
me&ferne at the entrance

Surat thani-bangkok

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train station
Ferne me Adjan Suawsri
tee me adjan saunswri
on the the train

My Trip up North: Bangkok,Chiang Rai, Chaing mai, Mae Soi/Burma, Surat Thani

2006-11-03T23:59:00.000-08:00

Hey Everyone; First i would like to say i had an amazing trip and saw so much of this beautiful counrty that i am living in, also a big sorry for no updates but hopefully this will keep you happy and you will Enjoy all the pictures of everything i have seen.

Day 1(Oct 26th)-phuket-surat thani-Bangkok
so i woke up really early to get everything ready to go on the trip, i wasnt leaving phuket till 4 so i did alot of running around. in the morning me and katie went to patong to pick something up and also hit the beach to say bye to everyone. it was sad, waving goodbye to everyone on the bus back to phuket town, like i wasnt coming back or something, aam almost didnt let me go. when i go back in town i had to say bye to katie and met the driver to go to immigration to get my passport stamped. after that i went to the bank to fix my account(which took forever) after that i came home packed the rest of my stuff as fast as i could and flew to the bus station meeting Adjan Sawnsri & fern, we got on the mini bus and left for a 4hr drive to surat thani, we got in surat about 7;30, koon Tee met us there at the train station. our train was delayed till 11, but eventually came and we jus went right to bed and in the morning we were in bangkok.

Day 2(Oct 27th) Bangkok-Chiang Rai
so we arrived in bangkok around 8 in the morning, 7 buses picked all of us on the tour and took us to the hotel. since we were sleeping on the train, they took us to a hotel to get showers and eat breakfast we had till 10;00, then we were off to the grand palace, it was so beautiful the arcitecture was amazing, like the crystals, and everything so much detail. we had a few hours there then we go back on the busses and start on our way to chaing rai, we drove all night, and at about 8 we stoped for supper, somewhere i dont remember where it was. the bus was extremly uncomfortable but i lived haha.

Day3(Oct 28th)Chiang Rai
we arrived really early in the morning at the hotel, a few degress cooler as well, seeing we now are in the north of thailand, but jus like a cool morning in canada, but so much hotter in the day. anyway so we got our room keys, put all our stuff in the room, and ate some breakfast, had time for showers then it was time to leave again. Today we went to Doi Tung mtn, there was a beautiful temple and alot of different statutes and northern flags. there was also this famous bell and if u made it ring, it would be so loud the gods would be able to hear your call, it was so heavy i barly got it to ring, it was fun tho. After we left the temple thier was a gift shop and i bought a silver braclet that has elephants on it, cheap as well 100baht. After we went to the kings mothers palace also on Doi tung mtn. It was so beautful,the view of the cliffs, mtn;s, even the house was beautiful too. she had this amazing garden with so many different kinds of flowers and plants it was so beautiful, i thought of my both my grandmothers they would of loved it.
After that we went to burma/Mae soi(thailand) for some shopping for a few hours. I bought alot of louis vuittion stuff, watch purse and hat, for under 1000baht, also 7cds for 100 baht. (thai music tho, my fav bands here) p.s thai music is good!!! I wish i had more cash on me tho, i love cheap shopping haha. After shopping, we had lunch close to the boarder then head back to the hotel in chaing rai. Tonight had the travel agencey (Bon Journey) had some activities during dinnner(tho i have to say southern food is much better) for us, like games for the kids and kareoke, also a fire show, and best dressed in northern thai outfit. me and my family dressed up, but i didnt have a shirt jus the skirt. It was fun tho. I also met a girl on the trip who was a previous YE to texas and now is studing in bangkok, and were the same age so i had someone to hang out with along with ferne. Before we went to bed, we got to do a northern ritual, which is called loi gratong, (but this is on nov 5th) but in the north they use this paper ballon, and light a candle and send it in the air for goodluck, and also to lose your sins, in the south they do the same this but this is done in the water, its a bouquet made from banana leafs and flowers, candles and incense, and u send in the water for forgiveness of bad use of water or things u have done, also many young people do this for goodluck like for marriege and wish to be together for along time, almost like valentines day.

Day 4(Oct 29th) Chaing Rai-Chaing mai
the next morning we had to pack our things and head on our way to chaing mai, along the way we went to this beautiful temple, wich was my favorite of all of the temples ive seen so far in thailand. It was white to symbolize heaven and, when u walk over the bridge thiers hands coming out of the ground, to immitate hell, so amazing, everything about it. The guy who built it made it in england and brang it back piece by piece back here, hes also a famous thai artist, and his art is incredible(adam u would of loved his gallery). After that we went to a hot spring, and did some shopping, then we went out had supper, and then to the hotel, and after did more shopping at walking street, its this huge night market on the road in chaing mai, i bought a few
things here.

Day 5(Oct 30th)Chaing mai-bangkok
In the moring we went to "mesa Elephant camp" saw a elephant show, which the elephants were trained to paint pictures, it was amazing. they even hold the world record for "the most expensive painting done by a group of elephants" we even saw the painting. its so unreal. we also saw two baby elephants that were so cute! i want to bring one home to canada!!!! haha
After that we went to chaing mai zoo, to see the panda bears they were so lazy haha but so cute!
after the zoo we went to eat supper, and then did some more shopping and it was back on the bus to bangkok. we drove all night again and we watch posiden along the way.

Day 6(oct 31st) Bangkok-Phuket
so today was our last day of the trip, so our bus dropped us off and my host dads office in bangkok(chevron building) we got there about 4;00 in the morning so i like slet on a bench, believe it or not it was more confortable than the bus lol. we left our luggage there and went downtown in bangkok, by train, which was a cool experience. we went to siam shopping mall, which is probly the most expensive mall ive ever been in, like every desginer name u can think of haha at that moment i wish i was rich. after some shopping we went to the aquarium and saw sharks, fish, penguins, and all sorts of sealife it was a really cool place. we went to another mall looked around there, went to a internet library and killed some time, after that we had to go back to get our luggage and get a taxi to the airport, to go back to phuket. our plane left at 9;00 we got in phuket about 10;00 and didnt get back to the house until like 11, i was leaing to surat thani at 8;00 so i jus stayed at adjan swansri's house for the night.

Day 7(Nov 1st) Phuket-Surat thani
i woke up at 6;00 got a shower and koon boonrit picked me up and dropped me off at the bus station, my bus left at 8;00 so a long drive it was,about 3hrs. once in surat, a rotary member from surat picked me up and took me to lunch, we then headed to suan mookh(the temple to learn meditaion). once there i got all my things for my room and got set up, my room was my bed, with a straw mat, wooden pillow ,mesh to away the flies and nitted blanket. i was late arriving so i had to stay in my room till the excercise started, in this place u couldnt talk to anyone and walking everyone looked like zombies, when i was in my room i was trying to relax, but it was dark and no electricity. so it was hard, my body was so restless and i couldnt stop shaking, i got more restless because i didnt know what was happening to me, my throat started swelling and i couldnt breathe, it was so messed up, i went to talk to the girl in charge because i didnt know what to do, i tryed to sit and wait it out but it wasnt working, i think if i didnt travel for 6 days in a row non-stop id be able to relax, so i decided instead of ruining anyone elses experience here i would leave. i wish i did this another time bc i think it would help me alot, but owell eh. so at about 9;00 the rotarian who dropped me off, came to get me. Another girl in the camp wanted to leave too, her name was gabbi, she was from sweden. when we got in surat we ate dinner and then helped find gabbi a hotel, then went to the pier where there was night boats to koh samuoi island. I stayed with the YE in surat, marsha from flordia. it was cool to meet a new exchange student, same age as me, but shell be turning 20 soon. the next morning i was on a bus back to phuket.

all in all i had a fantasic trip i hope everyone loves the pictures ans so sorry for my lack of updates!!!!!
love u all--Elyse

Chris & Jeff Come to phuket!

2006-10-18T02:24:00.000-07:00

katie on her bday:) *more pics coming*
me and katie
me and jeff being sexy
jeff and i
me and karin
all of us crazy YE's

Sorry Everyone, lack of computer use& i had a busy last few days!
So Some YE;s From Korat & pattaya Came phuket to write thier SAT tests for college. and of course they had a few extra days so i spent some time showing them around;
Thursday; Jeffs Flight came in at 11:00 that morning so me katie and karin met him at central, grabbed some lunch and went looking for a hotel for them to stay in! After we found thier hotel, we brought his stuff up to the room and then went to ocean mall. we hung out here for the rest of the night, when we first got thier we went to "banana Variety" this is a store that everything is made of bananas and so many different ways to do it too! After that we went in the mall shopping and stuff, we found a picture booth so we decided to get pictures, it was fun:P around 10 er so me and the girls went home and jeff went back to the hotel to wait for chris, he was getting in at 11;30 that night!
Friday; we made plans to all meet up the next morning at thier hotel to get the bus to patong and go to the beach! although katie almost missed it bc her mom left a little too late, i had to stall the driver so she wouldnt miss it! haha so we get in patong and hit the beach right away! we played a 3 on 3 game of soccer right on the beach, tho our team didnt win but w/e haha it was still fun! aam and the guys were working, and aam was a little jelous chris and jeff were there but it was a fun day, tho chris picked me up and threw me in the water and i didnt even have my bathing suit on and no change of clothes haha coulda killed em! so i had to buy a teeshirt and then we got lunch, then the boys went back to thier hotel and me katie and karin hung out with aam put and kiat on the beach, relaxing and celebrating aams bday. later we went back home and the girls stayed at my place that night!
Saterday;(today is Aams 19th birthday) the guys wrote thier SAT tests till like 4;00 and the girls were at the house till 5; katies family was goin to krabi for a few days so we said bye to her! karins host mom took me karin chris and jeff out for dinner, after dinner we all hung out for awhile, then karins mom came and got her so me and the guys jus wanderded town and, then i jus went home!
Sunday;Jeff was leaving early in the morning so me and chris met up later, we went to ocean, and then got some pizza for lunch, then we went to see a movie " the departed" it was really good but the ending kinda sucked, after that chris was heading to the hotel and then to the airport to go back to korat, so i jus went back home, and hung out there for the rest of the night!
monday; i was supposed to meet karin in town and go to patong but we decided not too and instead i went to town with my host mom and brother, we went to the biggest book store in phuket, then went to thier dental clinic in town, it was kinda boring bc they were working so i went back with my grandmum at 4;00. i jus stayed home for the rest of the night and ate supper!
Tuesday; its katies 17th Birthdayy~~~~ we made plans to meet at karins and then head to ocean for 2;00, we went to banana variety, and we met up with katies thai friends, ate ice cream and desserts. after that me and karin snuck to ocean to get some last minute things for katies bday, also i bought aams birthday gift his bday was on saterday(we celebrated friday night) then katie got kinda suspecious that we were at the "bathroom" for like 30mins haha so she called us and we met up with them inside the mall. we looked around a bit, then one of katies friends offered to go to her house and sing kareoke and stuff so we did till like 6, and then we were meeting the guys at a restraunt close by at 7;30, we ate and surprised katie with a bday cake and her birthday gifts, and i gave aams his too! it was a fun night:) Happy birthday katie!!! lu Girllll<3>Wednesday; the girl's breaks over today i still have till nov1, so today was a boring day for me i jus watched tv and got cought up on some emails, and finially got a chance to write in my blog!!!! The 24th im goin to Chiang mai-till the 31st, so there will be a lack of updating on those dates, but great pictures i promise!!!!!!
so the next few days im goin to relax on the beach, bc when i get back i start school right away!:(
but im also kinda glad to see all my friends again, i havnt seen alot of them since school finished and some on my bday, so it will be fun to pick up the soccer again!! i also wont get fat ahaha. tho im loseing weight, not gaining as that stupid saying goes! Tn i have rotary so that will give me something to do untill tmr! love u all so much!! (thursday chelsea is coming back so ill be showing her around as well :P )
Elyse xoxox

My Weekend

2006-10-09T03:40:00.000-07:00

!!!!!!
woo Py Ocean pY!
Daniel Karen kiat & Aam
Karen &kiat

Hey All;
my weekend was pretty busy& intresting!
Friday my host brother Nac came home from bangkok on holiday for the month, hes 18 but is studying in university(hes super smart and skipped a few years of high school) hes really cool, loves golf and computers, and hes really nice! its was like a family reuinion kinda thing, friday me and karin were in patong hanging with the guys always fun on the beach!
Saterday it was my host dads bday so they had a monk over and prayed and stuff! lots of friends and relatives over. around 10 aam came and picked me up and then we got karin and headed to patong! today was the big surfing contest on kamala beach! all the guys were there, our friend ocean was in the contest so we were there cheering him on, we got free ice cream and lunch.. yuM! also it poured like jus before the contest and very windy! we were all hiding under anything for shelter, the boys were out in the water they didnt care they were already wet!haha After the rain stoped the contest began!! it was super fun! i will be a surfer before i go home u wait!!!
Sunday my host family was goin to patong for the day , so i went with them and ate lunch and had pizza, wich is a usual weekend thing to have.! after that i went to the beach and met with aam, he was working so i relaxed and talked to everyone. me kiat put and aam all jus hung out and then aam drove me home!! was a fun weekend!!!

My 19th birthday!

2006-10-03T08:05:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone! sO im finallY 19 YaY!!!!
Thursday;28: me katie and karin went to the beaches today, kata, karon and patong we spent the day relaxing and jus having a good time together, we hung out with the guys and went back to my house and celebrated my bday!! the girls got me a little cake and sang me happy birthday!!
Friday;29:(my bday) we woke up and jus chilled at my house for the day; watchin tv and listening to music! and then my thai friends booked a reservation at Mai mon kareoke and seafood restraunt!! it was so much fun, most of my class came, alot went to bangkok for UNI tests but none the less it was a awesome time!
Saterday;30: i didnt do much during the day i mean jus chilled or w/e my last family called me and invited me out for bday dinner, we went to this swiss restraunt and i ate pasta&garlic bread!! im drooling right now thinking about it hahajk! but i want it tho. then we went to the night market and they droped me off back home! i really miss them and im sad i dont see them that much it was really the first time i seen them since i moved except my hostsister am. when i got home my current host family had cake for me and we did the singing and stuff!(i think my bday was a breakthru with this family, i now feel apart of it, took awhile but i do) they invited my host cuzins down Tan, prim and thier dad Dr. toranis , and my little brother Na;s friend was over and his parents arrived to pick him up jus before so they stayed and ate cake too.

Day 61,62,63 Of Phuket!

2006-09-27T08:11:00.000-07:00

the amazing view of patong i was telling you about, thx Aam:)

Hellllllllloooo Everyone!(2days till my bdaYYY(19))
so monday, i stayed home. computer tv, computer tv, supper, computer sleep!
Tuesday; me and the girls went to patong!! when we got there we played a game of soccer, then we saw Aam and he invited me and the girls up to his place with everyone, bc they didnt have to work today bc itwas really windy and w/e so we went up the mtn and hung out with the guys, we had smoked fish& listened to some guitar reminded me of hanging out by the bonfire on a summer night:( but it was alot of fun, we walked up to the view Aam let me take a pic this time:p. and then a little later like around 5 we went to this hott spa it was amazing, there was a sauna but it was like lemon or something i dunno how to explain made my skin soo soft, and there was a hott tub but the water was like cold had the jets and everything tho! we listened to music and danced it was a awesome time!! after that we went to subway, we were craving forang food!! haha and i love subway! its werid i think from being in the sauna. i lost weight so werid! we got a tuktuk back to karins and then katies mom picked us up!!
Wednesday; i jus chilled today.. watched 2 movies, sisterhood of the traveling pants and 8mile! talked to aam katie and karin!! ate supper and went to rotary. tn at the meeting they gave me a present:) a little thai dish so cool!!:) i sent some emails, now im talkin on msn and soon ill go to bed.. tmr im celebrating my bday!!! WOOO cant wait!

Beaccccccccccch

2006-09-24T23:57:00.001-07:00

Saterday at the beach!

Monday at the Beach!
me parasailing!

Hello All, sorry my updateing is lacking, today is my only chance that ive got to update in a few days, ither way here they are!
Thursday, nothing happened i mean i was home all day and then my family came home and i ate supper, watched tv..went to bed? exciting.. not!
Friday, me and katie went to patong again!! wOOO so much fun like always, we saw the boys agian got some free seadoos rides today:P Aam took me out, and chiwit took katie out, we relaxed on the beach and jus hung out with the guys, we played tacour&soccer! we had to go back to town, because i was invited to a party with, Relatives of my host family now, Tan& prim and thier parents, it was relatives of them that had the party, it was so cool we had dinner and thier daughter(jip went on a exchange 3 years ago to NYC) was in a band and they played alot rock it was awesome, even bahabumba!
Saterday, YE Chelsea from BC, in krabi came with her host parents to phuket for the day, i met with them at osihsi sushi bar, and we had lunch really nice family she has!, after that i took chelsea to meet up with the girls at karins, and we got a tuktuk to the bus station and of course went to patong! again so much fun!! we got karin and chels deals on the seadoos and they went out, we met this couple from iran, we played volleyball with them, and the guy even knew how to play tacour!! they were so cool. Aam took me to this amazing view i mean like crazy, overlooking the town of patong, and the beach it was so beautiful, one problem i didnt have my camera he ran and held my hand i didnt even have time to put my sandals on!! ill have to get him to take me again, it was amazing! so we jus relaxed on the beach all day then we had to go back to town to meet with chelseas host parents because they were goin back to krabi, we met them at tesco lotus mall(like walmart) and we ate supper with them, after that they left me karin & katie jus walked around the mall, then karins host dad drove us home, when i got home my host family had company over, they had 4 girls, i really got to know the oldest daughter june(18) she was in canada 4 years ago and new zealand 2 yrs ago, and now living in australia, she goes to boarding school, so shes been around the world! but we made plans to hang out before she goes back to australia, see a movie or something!.
Sunday, Dr.Toranis(tan&prims dad, my host relatives) invited me to the beach at 12, but he didnt come. so i went to lunch with my family at a chinese restraunt and then we went to more relatives of thiers, after that we dropped Na off at his friends and went back home, Dr. Toranis came to get me, and we went to his bosses weekend home(wich had its own beach/gourgous view) thier was 2 medical studnets from germany there too. the tide was out so it was good for swimming, but they invited me back anytime to go swimming/snorkeling in the reifs! cant wait, after that i met katie and karin at the night market, i bought some thai music, and we looked around, ididnt see much i really wanted. after that we jus went home, my weekend was awesome!! were goin to patong again tmr, so i cant waitttt:)
P.S id jus like to point out, that ive been at the beach 4 times and im more tanned in a year in cb or even the most tanned ive ever been!!! i still have a month to go for free beach time!
untill next time
xoxo elyse
missing everyone<3

A Revolution ...What????

2006-09-21T00:19:00.000-07:00

Thailands Prime minister Thaksin , left thailand for a confrence in New York, for a UN general assembly, thailands military took this oprotunity to overthrow his power and take over thailand untill a new PM is elected. Thaksins family, has left the country to singapore, and Thaksin and his family arent allowed back into the country, In case he comes back in, the military have tanks and soliders on foot with guns patrolling all around bangkok. Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai said that the supreme commander of Thailand's armed forces -- Gen. Ruengroj Mahasaranont -- would be in charge of Bangkok. Tanks and troops patrolled Bangkok early Wednesday after the army said the military was taking control.Police were closing stores and directing traffic off Bangkok streets.
The coup plotters declared martial law and suspended the constitution of the Southeast Asian nation. They also declared Wednesday a holiday, with schools, banks and the country's stock market closed.Troops on the streets of the Thai capital had yellow ribbons on their weapons, a sign of loyalty to the nation's king, to whom the coup plotters proclaimed their loyalty.Former Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai told AP that Thaksin had forced the military to act. Thailand poloticians dont support any kind of coup, but during the past five years, the government of Thaksin created several conditions that forced the military to stage the coup. Thaksin has caused the crisis in the country. At least four tanks and a number of armored vehicles were stationed around the royal palace in Bangkok. Soldiers apparently were setting up roadblocks, and what appeared to be members of the royal guard surrounded the palace.Troops on the streets of the Thai capital had yellow ribbons on their weapons, a sign of loyalty to the nation's king, to whom the coup plotters proclaimed their loyalty.Two tanks were parked outside the government headquarters, which houses Thaksin's office.There have been 17 coups in Thailand since World War II, and rumors of an 18th have been circulating around Bangkok in recent weeks as Thaksin battled considerable pressure to step down. This is the first coup since 1992.
So everyone im fine, its mostly situated in bangkok, today schools are back on, and rotary hasnt warned me or even shown any warning of whats happening, even my host family arnt worried, phuket is pretty far from bangkok, and its seems to be coming to a end. For Safety of Thailands citizens, thier is a curfue for people to stay in thier homes no later than sunset, while soldiers walk the streets.
Thiers even news of the thai dollar crashing, so my cdn dollar will be worth alot more! the UN also declared a warning for all tourists to flee the country and go home, also avoiding them from entering as well!

im not goining anywhere, i refuse to let this ruin my exchange:)

So day 55& 56 Of phuket

2006-09-20T23:57:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone,
Tuesday, katie and i went shopping in town, i bought some shorts, a goalie jersey,a and a tacour ball!!! tacour is a thai sport, a little bit like volleyball/hackysac. after that jack met up with us and we went to a movie, saw "seasons change" its a thai movie, about temple schools(like phuket wit my school) and international schools. its kinda making fun , but halirous if u know what they mean, like you canadians wouldnt appriciate it bc your not in the thai school system. anyway after that jack drove us home, on the way home thier was a beautiful sunset that katie captured, ill put some up when i get one from her:P! i couldnt get my camera quick enuff.
Wednesday, well today we were supposed to go to patong, but as you canadians back home found out a day before i did, thailands goverment has been taken over by the military. (wich i have more info on) but anyway katies mom said to wait it out, and see what happens so i went back to sleep, then my brothers called me from home, woundering if i was alive, i am otherwise u wouldnt be reading this! anyway so katies host mom was goin into phuket town, so they picked me up aswell. well if u knew how busy it was on a regular day, u would be shocked like i was , phuket town was deserted, jus a few cars, everyone was infront of thier t.Vs waiting to see what was happening. Thai people have been waiting for this day. after that we went back to katies and went swimming at the pool, then went back to her house ate spagetti, and i made garlic bread for us:P then we played some badminton and went for a walk, also my Counsler came and dropped off my rotary jacket, when i moved to my new family i had left it in her car. katies mom was goin back into town so i got a ride home, when i got home , i went on msn, and i met some new YEs, two of the guys are coming to phuket, next month we exchanged #s and well meet up, cant wait! after that is was jus bed for me!~
thats all for now, untill tmr
xoxo elyse

Day 54 Of phuket!

2006-09-18T09:08:00.000-07:00

Sawatdeekha!
everyone today im am super enthused to tell to my story/adventures of today!!! plans were made last night wiht my friend katie(from germany YFU, not Rotary) to go to patong, i would meet her at phuket shoping center, wich is like a market type deal but inside, close to the famous city market/buss station. i met with katie at 9;00. Her host mom, dropped us off at the bus station, and we payed 20baht(both ways 40baht, wish is about $1.25 haha) sooo we got in patong, and katie never had time to eat breafast this morning so, we went to a coffe/subway restraunt and got thai style cappacinos, and she got her pastries for breakfast!. after that we went to the bank so i could get some cashhh flow$$ and then hit the beachhh!!! we got our chairs and walked the beach for a bit, we met some guys, that were selling parasailing. ive always wanted to and now was my chance, i got a good deal(of course, if u ever come to phuket, never pay what thier asking its not a good price BARGAIN!! and not jus phuket, all tourist spots) it was amazinggg, but i felt at one point i was slipping thru the harness, but it was jus the feeling of going higher!! awesome tho!!! katie didnt go just me(thanks for the pictures:)
So after that we ran to the water, and went swimming. the water was amazing nice and warm;). after swimming we talked to a few locals, and got us a sweet deal for a jetski, 300 baht 2people, 4omins!!! thier asking deal 2000baht, 30mins. we are good!!! the jetski was awesome, i drove and i drove fastt, waves were big so alot of fun!! after the jetski, a friend i met earlier Bou& his friend, took me surfing, he gave me freee lessons!! hard at first, but i was surfing in no time, jus need invest in a board!! mom/dad??? surfing was like snowboarding a little harder to stand up tho! After that we went to a restraunt and ate lunch, we took some of back on the beach and jus relaxed. After that some of the locals were playing soccer against a few guys from japan for $$, i asked to play, but i could because it was a bet. After that like 20 of us played it was awesome, my team was wearing shirts and the other team wasnt(all guys except me) all the forangs(foriengers) were watching and cheering, while i was playing, katie was getting surf lessons from my new friend beu;s, friend haha. after that we went to check the bus schedule, to make sure we wouldnt miss our way home! after that we said bye to our new friends and headed on back to phuket town. once we got in phuket our drive wasnt gettin us till 7;00 so we had time to shop in the market and grab some coffee. it was so much fun!!! when i got home iate supper& and watched tv, chelsea from krabi called me, we seriously talked till our batteries went out. she needed help with her rents back home so i talked to them on msn(reminded me of mine in some ways haha) all in all it was a awesome dayyyy:)

Day 52, & 53 Of phuket

2006-09-17T06:20:00.000-07:00

RAYAN Beach

Sawatdeekha Everyone!
so saterday, nothin really happend. jack was supposed to come over at 3 to help me with my thai, and so he called me and couldnt find the house, sure enuff 2 hrs later he still didnt find my house, i was even waiting at the drive way, the 7/11 close by and he said he drove to the aquarium wich is after my house so he had to drive past it at least twice, anyway he gave up bc it was so hot haha my directions were fine, i have no idea how he couldnt find it! so for the rest of the night we ate supper and watched tv!
Sunday, i woke up at 11, and went out to a seafood restraunt with the host fam! food was awesome, had garlic&spiced squid and fish with rice!! yumm.
after that we went to my host parents plant farm,and then droped nida off at home then na off at a friends, and me and my host mom went back to the plant farm, picked up my host dad and thier friend and looked for more land, to make another plant farm! i got to see alot of phuket today, and some beautiful senic photes of the city, chalong bay, and Rayan beach. after that we ate supper, i called katie and we made plans to go to patong tmr for swimming and fun stuff cant wait!!! after that i was jus on msn talkin to some YE;s from another district im trying to attend some trips with them, bc my district sucks and only has one trip. so i emailed the guy in control of the trips hoepfully ill be able to attend the mtn tour in november!!
untill tmr
xoxo ELyse
missing everyone<3

Day 51 of Phuket

2006-09-15T09:45:00.000-07:00

today, i didnt go to school. and i got to sleep in till 9 ..wow usually thats early for me back in canada but here its me sleeping in!during the day i didnt do much of course, notmuch to do except watch tv. later i walked to the store and watched more tv, and around 6 katie/karin called me to meet them at a restraunt and after that we would go to the technological college and watch some bands compeat, nothing like the local shows back home im used too, i mean from sequens to black/chains thiers a bigg difference, haha not including the lyrics. but it was funn(sanook!) i wanted to dance, but no1 was dancing jus sitting in chairs almost like a a school concert and u jus watch them. i met alot of cool people tn, and i got alot of hellos and even a few handshakes/smiles wow eh! haha people jus wanna know who i am and where im from i guess! after that my host mom picked us up karin/katie needed a ride, and i got nagged at for not planning anything before i left, and how my family has no time for me, i shouldnt problyy be in this family if they dont have time, i can see it getting worse. anyway when i got home, i jus went on the computer, the lady isnt staying here tn, so i can watch some tv or something, anyway, untill tmr
xoxo elyse
missing everyone<3

Day 48, 49,50 of Phuket

2006-09-14T05:11:00.000-07:00

So hello everyone,
im sorry for the past 3 days, my life wasnt that intresting here so ill jus combine them all into one, tuesay... my friend jack was supposed to come see me, but he got in accident, hes ok thank god tho, he was supposed to come at 5, and by 6;30 i figured he god lost, so while waiting i played monoply singapore edition with my host brother na, and host sister nida! it was fun, after the game i figured something happend and called him, sure enuff thats what happened, hes ok tho. and for school, this week is pretty boring bc my class has to write thier final tests and the next two weeks thier exams and then school break. so most of my time was spent sleeping haha or learning thai with jack. i didnt go to school thursday and im not gonna go friday. thursday a dentist friend of my host mom came from bangkok(tho my host mom is still in bangkok on business) which i think i will have to share a room with her, i dunno i like sleeping alone so this will be weird sleeping with some1 i dont know, but w/e . i miss everyone so much, thats it so far, untill tmR.. sawatdeekha!
elyse<3

Day 46 &47 Of Phuket

2006-09-10T05:55:00.000-07:00

our thai guy that paddled the canoe
meee in the boatt!
karin**
canoeing in the canal!
sawatdeekha!
yayy :)
me on the elephants head:P
me almost falling off the elephant...
Karin &i on the elephants back!
the korean couple!
elephant guy!!
ELEPHANTS!!!!!!
And Jane
Tarzann! (our tour guide)

me ++ waterfall

a gibbon

Saterday;
so i stayed over karins, and we woke up pretty early at 8;00 we got showered. jack called me we talked for a bit, he was on the bus to surit thani for the weekend so it was hard to hear em. anyway karins host dad dissapeared for a while, and we found him, and went out for some breakfast. after breakfast me and karin got our bags packed for the day, and we were on our adventure to patong for the day. so we got in patong around 12 and we did some walking around talkin to everyone as we passed by all the stores we even met a new friend kuma, he was super funny, and short, but he thought he was taller than me haha. So Patong is the more popular place in phuket for tourists to vacation. here u see the most western restraunts and bars and people, and everyone on the beach getting some sun. its a little annoying sometimes being in patong because everyone thinks im a tourist and 100s of people who own business make u try and buy thier crap lol. anyway after a little walking we bought our tickets for our Andanam Safari tour, the tour started at 1;30. So our tour guide picked us up, a couple from korea went too, so the first part of our tour was to see a gibbon plantation, gibbions are a sorta like a monkey, but not in the species of monkey. the plantation brings the gibbons in and quarnteins them and sets them back free on a remote island so thier is no danger in loss of thier species. after that we went to bangpae waterfall, we were actually lucky to see the waterfall, beacuse it has rained the past week, in the high season there wouldnt be a waterfall because it hardly ever rains.After the waterfall, i got to see what ive been dying to see long before i came here to thailand.... yup A elephant!!! we rode the elephant into the jungle i got to sit on its heaD!! it was so cool, and we got a cute thai guy helping us with the elephant. so a little bit of history on the asian elephant, indian elephants are the same species, but the african elephant is much bigger its 500 killos where a asian elephant is 300killos. asian elephants live till thier 60 years and carry thier babies 10months. after we rode the elephant, we saw a monky show, it was so cool he would shake our hands play basketball, understand numbers, he even went swimming, monkeys dont like water! and we even saw a baby elephant show, he stood on his two front feet and on his two back feet, and he played the harmonica!! so cool!
After that we went canoeing in a river, is was so peacefull i almost feel asleep, again we had another cute thai guy, paddling for us:P haha after that we ate dinner, and headed back to patong, we said by to our korean friends and tour guides, and stayed in patong and jus got to check out the nightlife, we were there long we came home about 11, and then i got picked up at karins, it was a awesome day i had some much fun!!!!

Sunday;
well sunday was a typical sunday, where ya jus relax, i woke up late, around 11 got showered, i was supposed to go to kathys little brothers bday party but i had no ride in, so i jus watched tv, went on the computer and jack called to chat, he was coming back to phuket, he had a good trip. then we ate supper, and i went back on the compter and im soon probly gonna go watch some tv, school tmr.. yuck!! untill tmr!
xoxo elyse
misssssssss u all so muchh:((

Day 45 of phuket

2006-09-07T20:18:00.000-07:00

us on our tuktuk ride~!
Friday;
so this morning , it was pouring like mad, i got to sleep in till 8; 20 wich was sweeet. at 9;00 boonrit, from my club picked me up and we went to the phuket immigration office and tanit and karin where there. we got our visas, and were legal citizens/tourists lol, and after july 1, we will have no trouble ever entering or leaving thailand, untill july as a exchange student , when every i leave the country i have to go there before and get a stamp, other wise id have to do all the paperowork again. so i had to get passport photos taken, and it was this little building behind the office, and when i was goin there, i cut my foot on the door, and tanit was pulling me and running so we wouldnt get soaked from the rain haha, it hurt but i lived. after all that we were supposed to go to the district officer, but the rain was way too heavy and the roads were flooded, it was nuts, so i jus went back home, i didnt have to go to school:) yayyy. so now im jus talkin to my mexican sisttaa titi, after that i watched tv for a while, and then got the choffer to drive me to karins, and then me karin and kathy(shes from germany) got a tuktuk to ocean mall, and did some shopping, then ate supper at this pizza restraunt(not as good as home at all) anyway after that kathy had to go home, so me and karin did some more shopping and jus mingled with the locals and had a coffee, we decided to walk home, and we walked pretty far out of town, her house was farther than we both thought,so we got a ride home on a scooter taxi the rest of the way, and i was stayin at her house for the night so we jus watched tv, and chilled then hit the hay for our exciting day we have planned for tmr.

Day 42, 43, 44 of Phuket

2006-09-07T02:48:00.000-07:00

hello Eveyone!!!
Tuesday,
school was good, love the short days. today i learned something pretty neat about thailand, like we celebrate the year as 2006, but in thailand its the year 2549, when thier god(monk) died kinda neatoo i thought, ii asked before what it ment but nobody told me lol, i have this new friend that teaches me thai, his name is jack he works for the school, but hes not a teacher. i understand him more than my other tutor. after school, tan prim me and thier mom, went to robinson, thier mom bought me a cell phone case, and a drink at the coffee shop, thier so nice!! we also went across the street to ocean mall and did alittle looking around, so far this is my favorite mall, it pretty cheap, and has cool stuff.

Wednesday,
so today, i dunno i didnt do anything exiting in school. jus learned more thai with jack, he got me this book, that helps me draw the thai characters, its kinda like when little kids start learning to write the alpahabet, with the dotted lines and the pictures of what the letter represents. its working too!!. so after school the couffer picked me up and drove me home, we ate supper and then went to rotary, surapee told me me and karin are goin on friday at 9;00 to immigration to get our passports/visas done. i dunno if were goin back to school or not lol itd be cool its we didnt have too. after that i jus went home and watched tv, and went on the comp, and to bed.

Thursday,
today was oaks last day in school, he leaves tmr to bangkok for a night then he leaves for sydney!!! ill miss his sooooo muchhh:(:( but ill also see him again before i leave, i hope anyway i dunno when our northern trip is. omg so today i saw some crazy things while waiting for tam/prims mom, a monkey on top of the cab on a truck lol,and a truck carrying pigs ahha funiest thing ever!!after school, we stoped and got cake & brownies haha yummm, i ate mine after i got home, thier really nice, tmr i dont think ill be goin home with them or to school, bc im going with rotary, and i think im staying over karins and goin to patong on saterday for some go-karting, bc we didnt last weekend. after school, i just relaxed and went on the computer, ate supper and watched cartoons with my little host brother, and then watched a movie (Electra) with my host dad, sister, and brother, and then went to bed. that was it for my night, untill tmr
xoxo Elyse
missing everyone:(((

Day 39, 40, 41 of Phuket

2006-09-03T04:33:00.001-07:00

Saterday:
Hello Everyone, so Today was the big move, it was so sad to leave my family, my host mom looked heart broken when i left i hugged her a bunch of times, am says they really miss me and i realy miss them too(its true your first family is always the one who makes it ot breaks it, and is usually the one u are closest too), surapee came and i was still in bed, and had some last minute packin to do, we left and we headed to my new home, wich is basiclly a totoally different area where i was told id be living, im the same, maybe a little closer to phuket town, than my previous home, but its good. my new home is beautiful, with gardens, amd jus everything about it. my host family are great, my parents are dentists and , i have 3 siblings
a brother 18, in bangkok a sister 12, and my youngest brother 10. my family is very nice, jus we dont have the same intrests, like they play instriments and music,me i am all for the sports and everything , they hate anything with water or hiking:( hopefully this isnt a problem, tho it may be. i feel kinda spoiled in some ways , i have my own bathroom and maids. cant complain tho:P
saterday, i jus went to the park with my hostmom , while she teacher he chinese arobics, i ran a few laps, and met up with my friend pai, and ran some more with him, after that i jus relaxed watched tv, and went to bed.
Sunday;
i woke up at 9 got a shower, watched tv, then went to central with my family had lunch at pizza delight, then i met up with oak, we did some shopping then went to see " my super ex-girlfriend"(which was a funny movie) we payed 500baht and saw it in the first class cinema, which u get free food& drinks before the movie, and while ur in the movie u get to relax in a lazyboy with blankets, and also get free food and popcorn it was so sweet, and comfy. after that we looked around a bit more, then my host mom came and picked me up. my host moms grandmother passed away so we went to a funeral, which lasts about 7days, we jus ate dinner and prayed for her. kinda different from home. after that i jus went to bed, i had school the next day.

Monday;
so today i went to school with my friend tam and prim(brother and sister, but they were both on a exchange last year, tam canada and prim usa) thier dad is realted to my host mom, they are brother and sister. thier dad is Dr. Toranis i had emailed him before i came here because he is my clubs doctor incase anything happens to me!. so the only intresting thing at school today was that all the guys in my school, had military training, they were all in army green and decked out like thier would be a war. all young men, have to have traing, for a month every year in case thier is ever a war. so for this month my school gets out early bc of exams next month, they need the time off from school to study more. me i dont have to write anything lol. :D after school me and karin got together for 2hrs untill my choffer came and got me haha , after that i came home watched tv, and we went out for supper, then my family went back to the funeral, i didnt have to go again so i jus stayed home and went on msn, and wrote this. im gonna go get a shower and watch tv, and eventually head to bed, untill tmr goodnight;)
xoxoxo Elyse
missing everyone;(

Day 38 of Phuket

2006-09-01T23:31:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!! so today is Friday, i went to school, had my usual friday classes, today we got a letter saying for the next two weeks we get out at 3 everyday, which im pummped because i hate being there till 5! after school a bunch of us from my class oak pui koon waan and a few others got some thai noodles and went to friday for some drinks!! then i went home at got ready for the big surprise party. so i got to maimon(a seafood/kareoke restraunt), and about 20 out of the 44 in my class were there, everyone was late showing, oak came at 630(not everyone was even there yet) but he was really surprised:) he had no ideaa:P. so we all busted in to the kareoke and never ending photoshoot, it was so much fun, first time with my whole class outside of school!! after a little bit of kareoke we ate supper, did alot more kareoke, then it was time for the teachers speaches and some of his closest friends to say a few words, this was the saddest partt :(, i said a little speach to him of course he was upset and even me too, his best friend said a few words, oh god it was so sad!!! im really gonna miss him:(:( we all sang a few sad songs after that and it didnt really help, but it was truly a moment none of us will ever forget! after that the teachers left, and this is where the partyyy went wild, i was on the table dancing and singing with oak and everyone, haha so much fun. it settled down after a few more dance songs, then we were all saying bye to oak, we all left around like 11;30 ish, ill miss him like crazy, he helped me alot here in thailand, and it wont be the same without home:(:(:( after the party i had to pack like crazy, because im moving in the morning, after that i jus went to bed!
untill tmr;)
xoxoxo Elyse
missing everyone:(

Day 37 Of Phuket

2006-08-30T07:51:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone, today the rain was really heavy and kinda of a extra sleepy day, school wasnt really intresting today, i never got to play soccer or there wasnt any fun classes! but later like 8th period i got a call from surapee telling me im moving on friday, i was shocked and confused bc, it came really soon and ive just gotten adjusted to this family, o well, ill be in phuket town close to robinson& oceania mall!! and im living with a dentist from my club. things seem good, hopefully its works out like this one, tho there is conflict with friday bc oaks surprise goodbye party is on friday and i dont think im moving untill saterday or tmr, whoknows. anyway for supper we went to this little restraunt up the street called swiss delight, it was awesome, food was great!! & they were so friendly! the owner is actually from switzerland and thiers two other thai workers, we talked to them, shes was really funny! anyway tmr is another day, talk to you then!!
miss u all!!!!!!!!!!!!
xoxo Elyse

Day 35-36 of Phuket

2006-08-30T01:20:00.000-07:00

so the last two days(monday& tuesday) its been rainy here, not great,wheater but still hotter than home, schools goining great,i meet new friends everyday,and always have that intense game of football(soccer) at lunch with the guys inmy class haha, i love tosee thier faces when i play mybest game, i kinda shocked my selff oneday, it was funny. as for everything else its great, miss everyone alot tho~ oh i forgot 2 say, i got moms&dads parcel on monday, i finally have my rotary blazer!!! yippe and a beautifful canada sweater from justin&kathleen,thank you(wont be wearing it much here tho:P ) plus i got some candy tooo, yunnn reces peanut butter cups!! my fav!!! if u want me to write you, leave your adresss and ill send a post card!!! :) i would love to, kills some boring times thru the week!!!! infinate xs&os
Elyseee~ <3

Day 32,33,34 Of Phuket

2006-08-27T07:04:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone: ive been busy and im sorry i havnt wrote !
My weekend was pretty great, friday i went to school, a short day(love those) played some soccer with the boys, then left and met with karin, walked to her house, watched some tv&got a shower, then her host mom drove us to central we shopped and went and got some pizza(we were craving it) ahaha then went to swensens to get icecreamm:) we had plans to go see a movie but there wasnt any good movies playing so we continued to shop some more and then got a tuktuk back to merlin hotel, and walked the rest of the way to karins, we were bored so we decided to go rent a movie, we went to tsuayta and we needed a membership and they were closing so we didnt have enuff time to make one, so that was a bust, we just walked back home and watched tv, then her host mom came home and drove me home, i went online for the rest of the night and just talked to everyone who was online. saterday i didnt do anything except for a lot of sleep, msn and running, it was pretty boring, i was gonna do something with oak, but something came up. sunday my host family was taking me and karin all around phuket to see alot of stuff, in the morning in rained they cleared up, we planned on swimming but decided not to, after we got our pictures on patong beach, it poureddddd, like torental haha which lasted about 20mins, my host mom took us to kata/karon beach and jus drove around a bit, then we went back home for a sec, then na-eh took us to the aquarium and then promthep cape, mai harn beach & look off(where i met some tourists from brazil&belgium) they were really nice, they wanted to know about phiphi so i told them about it and showed them my pictures haha i felt like a expert lol, after that we went to central and ate at phuja nirvana(a indian restraunt/bar) it was so unique i loved it, food was great! after that we droped karin off and went home, i took so many awesome pictures i used every memory card i had and i have no memory left haha ahh, and my computer is still in the shop! anyway it was a awesome day:) & a great weekend!
xoxo Elyse
missing everyone:(

Day 31 Of Phuket

2006-08-23T20:20:00.000-07:00

THURSDAY;
So today when i woke up, air was sleeping on the couch she came home last night at 4, ouch. at school, we had our class photo taken, air came home for that i guess she leaves at 3 today so i wont see her before she leaves, so i said bye and gave her a hug!. after that my class was writing a test, so i left with nung and oak to nongs class, on the way i met up with the soccer coach he said im on the tEAM:):):) yayyyyy i start practice next week im so excited now i can do something else during the week:P, ps its a boy team ahah owell. so i went with nong and oak, and this class was writing a test so i went on the computer and talked with holley:) after that i went to my thai lessons,(my class was in double bio) so i came back between the 2nd period and i sat with poom , toyoshi, sim, ahh forget his name(im horrible) anyway that was fun bc they love to make me laugh haha. After that it was so random, the guys tell me were goin "outside" so we went and jumped on this truck bus thingy hahha and we went to this coal minning museum, it was fun. next we didnt have to go to class because we were late getting back, so some students were singing in a kareoke contest, my friend koon sang, she did so good, we all cheered for her!!, then i went home, a guy thats works with my host parents brought me home like 20 "english" magizines ahah :) finally something to read in those boring science classes lol, after that i watched tv, went for a long run(gotta keep in shape for soccer:) then i ate some supper, and made plans with karin for tmr night!, soon it will be bed time,
untill tmr
xoxo Elyse
missing everyone:( *pictures soon*

Day 30 of Phuket

2006-08-23T19:58:00.000-07:00

Wednesday: i had school, nothing much exciting there except that i played tacour with the guys at lunch, always fun. and in english class we did another test, all the guys sat by me, so they could get help haha i jus laughed. after the test we played a game kinda like bingo but you had categories and letters and u had to get a word in "english" with that letter to fit in the category and in a row of 4. the class was split in 2 so both were yelling for me to be on thier team , i was the host u could say so it would be fair, this game was hard for them bc they dont know much english words, but the side i was sitting on ended up being the team that won, it was alot of fun.
After that i met am, and we went to fridays for some oreo shakes, yummm. then my host dad came and got us,took us home and i got a shower and worked on my power point , and rushed to the rotary meeting, it was ok. i did my speech but the projecter wasnt working so ill have to show it next week. this meeting was really sad bc, we had to say goodbye to Pla&lin, i gave them canada shirts for thier farewelll, im gonna miss them, it will be so much harder when oak leaves:( after the meeting we took pictures and showed pla off :( (pictures will be up later) anyway that was my day!! misss u all so muchhhh:(
(oh today i was invite to ping and sims bday:) cant wait )
xoxo elyse

Day 29 of Phuket

2006-08-22T08:40:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!! today was a intresting day, i went to go meet my teacher thats teaching me thai, but she didnt show up so i had a few sleep periodslol next i went to pal, which pui, fern, mee, and toyoshi did a presentation on cpr, ahah it was pretty funny bc the guys in my class were trying to take of toyoshis (chee) shirt and socks while they were presenting, i was weak the whole time. the rest of the day was okay, always intresting with my class, anyway they had bio but the teacher let me use the computer, so i send shae a email and jus browsed the net. our next class the teacher didnt come so we all jus sat and talked, some1 bought thai candy and gave it out, i tryed and it was gross , but they think its delicous, haha poom saw the one i didnt try on the table and was like "u want me to have?" and i said yeaaaa take it (bc i didnt want it) lol and he said i was a lovly girl very nice to do that ahha, i guess by thier reaction when they passed them out(a few of them went crazy and didnt want anyone to have any and took the bag and ran, but they gave me some before they ran) so poom i guess was surprised i let him have it.:P after that we had english, which was funny again, bc the teacher was talking about errands and asking them what it was, and i rasied my hand bc no1 else was, and i explained what it was, everyone of course cheered me on, bc i cant answer a question in another class, bc i have no idea what thier saying. after taht he wanted a explaination of wat it was, everyone looked at me, and he said"some with dark hair maybe,.." haha i was weak. so after that i went home changed and went to Plas goodbye dinner with rotary, shes leaving on thursday to USA, gonna miss her:(
after that surapee and manepeen drove me an am home, and i jus chilled worked on my powerpoint project for tmrs meeting.
xoxo Elyse
miss u all so muchhhhh:(

Day 27/28 Of Phuket

2006-08-21T06:46:00.000-07:00

hello Everyone
Sunday: i woke up early bc i was supposed to go to the beach with karin, but there was a rotary bowling thing at 10;00 so we went there and ate breakfast & lunch we played 3 lines. tho it was big ball bowling and back in canada we only have the small ones. anyway my first game was bad bc i was getting used to it, the second game i won:) and the last game i was a few points behind from winning, but all in all it was a fun time!!. after that we went to karins, there was a mix up with the beach, we couldnt get a drive so Pla and her mom took us around town at 5;00 (before that me and karin were jus hanging out at her house till pla came) pla took us to the sports plex park and we walked around there, went to the chinese market bc karin never saw it, tho i did bc i went with oak yesterday, after that we picked up pla's brother and went to MK restraunt, its a chinese restraunt popular with thai people, theres one in everyone mall and it always booked. after Mk i went home and worked on my power point presentation for rotary on thursday, i have to do a 15minute speach in thai.. yikes! after that it was late and i went to bed.

Monday:i went to school, nothing exciting, we had about 4 classes off so i got to catch up on my lack of sleep lastnight and hang out with some of the girls in my class, after that i went to some classes and came home, took my laptop into the toshiba shop to see whats wrong with it, so supposidly it storms alot here and everyone unplugs everything so nothing gets damaged by the storm, well nobody told me this, so i left my plugged in one night and it stormed and yup, my computer is shot, the guy said it might be my motherboard i hope not:// otherwise i might of lost all of my picturess so far:(((( so im kinda pissed about that everyone pray its jus my battery!!, so im not really doing anything else but work on my presentation and i wrote a few postcards, so ill go to bed soon, goodnight!
xoxo Elyse
missing everyone

Day 26 Of Phuket

2006-08-19T07:22:00.000-07:00

oak kim pear and nung, kareoke'ing :)
oak kim pear and me:)
oak nung kim and peaR! @ swensens -kinda blurry:/ (then again its my old camerA!)
Oak Nung Kim Pear & mE

Hello everyone!! so today started off slow, woke up at 12 , got a shower and called oak.we made plans to meet up at 3. so untill then i jus chilled, watched tv, ate some lunch and got ready. so Na-eh drove me to meet up with oak, it was a surprise to see nung pear and kim!:) so right away we did some kareoke, which in most malls they have this place with a bunch of booths to sing wiht your friends, its quite popluar here in thailand, and of course we sang in thai, which after that my throat was sore, but alot of fun none the less.!:) so we walked around the mall to kill time, then some more friends from my class ice&tap picked all of us up and we drove with them for a bit, and we went to swensens to get some ice cream fondu ..mmm soo good:) after that we went to a few stores across swensens and looked around a bit. after that we said bye to pear bc she had to go, and continued walking up the street, we stoped at peous house, but he wasnt home, so we kept walking till we got to the chinese market, we looked around and ate some chinese food, we walked by a fendor that was selling bugs.. like cockroaches and grasshoppers, yuck. oak dared me to eat some but i didnt. nung said they taste good, but somehow i dont believe her lol. after that kim had to go so we said bye to him, and continued to look around the market. we played a dart game, which me and nung got keychains :P and oak played this other game where u try and catch a fish in a net, which was hard. im guessing you get to keep it if u catch it haha, but he had no such luck. after that i called nah-eh to come get me bc they had to go home, nungs mom picked her up on the way back to robinsons , and me and oak got some ice cream at kfc, and waited for his mom/nah-eh. i said bye to oak and went home. Waiting at home was tanit, surapee and manepean memebers from my rotary club, they came to talk to me(nothing bad) i guess jus to check on me and see if im still loving thailand(which i do:) anyway we talked for a bit more, and they left. i went on msn and talked to karin the other YE, we made some plans for the beach tmr at 11,cant wait:) not sure what beach but it should be fun. after that i called holley bc of her bday, aww i miss her and everyone else so much, we had a good chat! so its 9;33 now so i plan on jus relaxing for the rest of the night, so untill tmr goodbyeeee!
xoxo Elyse
missing everyone:(
P.S if u guys are reading leave me a little msg, id love to hear from you!

Day 25 of Phuket

2006-08-18T10:49:00.000-07:00

Hello ameigOs! todayy, i woke up early wich was werid(9am) yikes, but it was good i was talkin to sean and holley, Today is holleys birthdayyyy yaY!!! happppppY 18th girlll, love and miss yoUU!:( after i talked to them i was tired to i went back to bed, slept in till 12, watched my favorite teamm, madrid(every game i watch them play they always win, thier amazing so is the goal, wowzerS!) anyway it was and exciting game. after that i talked to karin(ye from oregon) we made plans for later tn:). after that i ate supper, i was supposed to bring my laptop in, but the guy was busy so ill bring it in on monday!. after that na-eh drove me to karin wich i was there 8-12;30 it was fun we played cards, talked, watched tv, and made more plans for next weekend:P so its pretty late now, so im really tired, im gonna go to bed, tmr me and oak should be doing something, not sure what or when. ohhh PS Laura i got your letter todayyy:) yay haha finally made me miss home alot!:(
anywayyy goodnight
xoxo elyse
missing everyone:(

Day 24 of Phuket

2006-08-17T09:12:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!! so today im actually feeling better, tho now i have a headache, cross your fingers this is the last of it!!. So today was another typical Day at school, some different things i did today; i went to my first actual thai class, i learned some of the thai alphabet, and the basics of thai, like i, you he/she they, it them, how, all that fun stuff!! haha my teacher is Mai pa porn she is great, pronouncing it is the difficult park so many high and low sounds, with different meanings it does get confusing and seems useless, but thats thai! haha. so today i had english, we were given this sheet i finished it the minute i got it and about 17 people swarmed around me to help them as well, english here is like grade 4 level its crazy!! and again the teacher didnt show up, wow this is becoming regualar everyday stuff, i guess they dont have subs here in thailand, which i can get used to another free period;). Also nung informed me that i might be able to be on the schools soccer teaaammmm yay!! so i talked with the coach and he asked me what i played and stuff, and to talk to him again on mondayy, woott hopefully it works outtt, i need to get back to the exercising otherwise ill be softtt, cant have that!!!! well after that i went with nung bc shes not im my class anymore bc she has to go back to the m5 bc she has to do the year she missed, bc she went to USA last year, anyway the girls in my class had to get thier hair cut by the teacher, which here is a thai tradition, i got scared i thought i had to get mine cut aswell, but i didnt of course:p, so anyway we went to her class and i met some of her class mates, some of the guys were playing guitar it reminded me of the boys back home , mike sean dan and remy :( aww. after that it was time to go home so i met with am and egg at fridays waiting for my host dad, we went home and my host parents went to patong so me and am jus chilled in for the night i watched "Deep Blue Sea" the only thing not in thai for hours lol ahh almost went crazy. anyway its like almost 12, gonna go to bed, goin to take the laptop in tmr, somethings wrong with the battery i think, cant turn it on, i think it overheated or something, atleast thats wat dad thinks.!!
WElllllll thats my day, and the start of the long weekend
xoxo Elyse
missing you allllllll:(

Day 22/23 of Phuket

2006-08-16T07:14:00.000-07:00

hello everyone; and so my luck continues.. Im sick again;/
Tuesday; today wasnt fun at all, i got up with the intention of getting ready for school, when i got so sick i was throwing up, had a fever, headache upset stomach, couldnt eat.. horrible! as the day went on my headache/stomach aches continued everything else faded, i thought it was sun stroke, cuz i was all day in the sun monday, but now im not quite sure. i didnt go to school, i layed in bed/couch and watched tv. i didnt get better at all, so i took a early night with some pills, tylnol and i think it was a thai verson of tums lol. helped alittle i guess.

Wednesday; still feeling crummy, but went to school anyway. my stomach hurt so bad am and her friend vicky took me to see the school nurse, i took something like petobismol, with out the pink. anyway that helped till about lucnh. so first class today was history, kinda boring bc there was a bunch of long presentations. Kim asked me to be in his group for another class, which i didnt really know what he ment but agreed anyway. next was math, which was also boring so i jus sat there and listened to some music, lol killed some time. next was lunch, by this time i was starving so i ate some spicy rice and chicken..yuM!. after that the boys were playing tagcor, and invited me in to join, it was fun haha(im getting better at it!:) next was actually im not sure, bc a teacher didnt show up, so again poom told me they were playing soccer so i went and played. at the start there was 10 of us then 3 more joined in on the other team, i think thats why me , bing, doot, tap, and tam lost. o well i had tons of fun, we were all hot so we went to the foutain thingy to cool off, i bought a water, they were all grabbing at it haha. Next it was buddism class, which really is about monk history how u rank the monks and so on, well that was our class today anyway. during this class we did this secret friend thing( kind like secret santa or on valentines when u send chocolates or candy, saying from , your secret admirer) anway for the rest of the term you will buy something from the cafeteria and give it to your secret friend, without them knowing it was you. to get your friend is the fun part, each person gets a little square and then draw a picture that symbolizes them, and u put it in a hat. everyone draws one individually and shows it to everyone, if they picked the one you drew, thier your secret friend, you dont know who has you. so tmr will be the start of it, should be interesting. After that we had english with foreign teacher, which the class had to do a test, so i did it anyway, it was extremly easy of course and i was done in 5mins, after u finished you had to go outside the class and wait, everyone was yelling and cheering i guess bc i was done so quick, kinda like my essay i wrote last week lol. i was out there 30mins, till the next person to finish came, after that pretty much everyone finished. after the test, we did that group thing kim asked to me be in. it was me bing and another girl in my class(forget her name;/) this skit was like a son who changes his appearance like ither getting a tatto or piercing or even changing his hairstyle/or having a sex change lol. anyway the father hates the idea and the mother/sister agree with them. i was the sister, the other girl was the mom, kim was the dad and bing was the boy. our group wa s funny, bing has a tattoo with a duck, saying ducky and a website and also a stupid hatt and he wore his boxers above his shirt, another group did the going away to college thing, he came back and was a girl, that was really funny. so our next class was supposed to be double science and gym, but our teacher didnt come so it was double gym( which we learned self-defence stuff, i can flip anyone anysize! haha..watchout!) next week were learning muay thai, which is thai boxing!! cant wait. so bc the teacher didnt come our class got out early, so poom, toyoshi, pear, nung, pui and waan took me across the street to Fridays, a restraunt/bar and we jus chilled got some sandwiches and some smoothies :) then am was finished so i said adios them, and went home, so when i got home i jumped in the shower thinking i was goin to rotary, but am told me i wasnt bc my host parents were goin to patong, and we wouldnt have a drive, then it rained so then didnt go, by this time is was 6;54 and the meeting started at 7 and i didnt bother doing anything so i put some pjs on, so i would never of been ready/got there in time so i didnt bother goin, they already called tanit earlier so he knew i wouldnt be there, so my night was kinda slow, then i called vickyyy and we talked for a bit, and agian my card ran out, gotta get more than 200baht next time!! sorry vicky , lu:( anyway im gonna go to bed or somthing, after tmr isss the weekend, hopefully ill get betttER!no school on friday.
xoxoElyse
missing everyone:(

Day 21 Of Phuket

2006-08-14T06:19:00.000-07:00

Hello FriendS:) Today was my trip to phi phi(prounced p p ) so we woke up at 6, my host dad drove me and Am, to chalonge bay, we waited for about 10 mintues got a Tour Van to the other peir, met up with Egg and aboarded the yacht, while boarding people took pictures of me(later to find out it was a sovenier, i jus thought it was like some person takin a pic of me like before, i bought it for 100baht which is 3$cdn. anyway while on the 2hr boat ride, i met this tour Guide named william, whos son was in ams class & after the trip told me hed give me a free tour anywhere id like to go, but to tell am to tell his son willy i wanted to go. yay:) so yesterday there was a earthquake around phi phi island so the waves were really big and rough, egg got really sick and kinda of ruined the trip for am bc she stayed with him behind. so we while coming to the islands william(the tour guide) showed me this cave that is said to have a vampire or something manys year ago, or so what i understood from what he was saying. we also went by bambo and mosquito island. we got to phi phi don, and i aboarded the boat that took us snorkling, while am and egg stayed back. i had so much fun, i had a underwater camera and took some cool pics of the reefs and stuff hopefully they will turn out. i'll scan them when i finish/devlope the pics. while snorkling i dropped my mask so i ended up cutting up my nee, ahha i thought a shark was gonna eat me, but i didnt see any so i just kept snorkling and taking pictures. we only had a hour snorkling so, after that we went back to island and went to the restraunt, i met up with Am & egg and ate lucnh. after that egg was still sick so me and am went looking around, we walked up to the beach and looked at a few stores, i bought a souviner t-shirt, its purple! we only had till 2, so we didnt have much time. im goin again when air is back in town and we will stay the night and do some different stuff. cant wait hoepfully no1 gets sick this timee~!!!!. on the way home the waves were 10x bigger and the boat was all over the place, the people outside the yacht were soaked coming back in, haha it was funny. also one wave hit so hard it made a leak and water came down below, got this guy soaked, he was making fun of his friend that got wet upstairs, jus before it so it was a little payback i guess haha. i had so much fun, but im sure it coulda been better if egg wasnt sick. anyway my night was just relaxing after that i ate supper, and watched a soccer game, and im probly gonna go to bed soon. oh yea i forgot to mention today is monday and we didnt have school bc of the queens birthday and friday we dont have school ither!! yey:) short week. awesome! (pics will be up soon) untill tmr,
xoxo Elyse
missing everyone <3

Day 20 of Phuket

2006-08-13T05:34:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone:) so today was a rainy sunday morning, i woke up around 10;00 and went for a run around the block, jumped in the shower, did some more laundry then me Am her aunt and a friend of the family who is from london, and my host mom, all went to central and ate supper at Sizzlers steak house. then after that me & am went to phuket town and picked up egg , then went to the kodak store and bought a underwater camera for tmr, bc we are goin to phi phii!!!! im so excited i cant waittt:) after that we went to chalonge bay to buy our tickets for tmR!!! after that we dropped egg off and came home. then me and am walked up the street to the store to buy some munchies for the trip tmr!!! for the rest of the night im just gonna relax and watch tv, take care
xoxo elyse
missing u all<3

2006-08-12T10:15:00.000-07:00

Lin and pla
yupp we ate it, tastes like clams
Me(ick) and karin
manepeen;s little niece she was so cute, she fell asleep after supper

2006-08-12T10:13:00.000-07:00

FIREWORKS :)

2006-08-12T10:12:00.000-07:00

after we went on stage
the sky before it rained so cool
unpredictable rain, sounds like canadas weather without the snow.
satree school's marching band

2006-08-12T10:11:00.000-07:00

the club president, karin pla me and manepeen
karin lin pla me and manepeen
me/karin
us waiting to go on stage

2006-08-12T10:10:00.000-07:00

jasmine
my host mom& the rose i bought her:)
after the rotary orientation
another group shot

2006-08-12T10:09:00.001-07:00

a chinese temple, in phuket town
close-up
am driving
the rose

2006-08-12T10:09:00.000-07:00

view infront of my house
my host aunt na-eh
pretty flowers
a typical thai door(testing out the camera)

2006-08-12T10:07:00.000-07:00

my street at night
my littlee friend haha

infront of the house again

2006-08-12T10:06:00.000-07:00

this symbolizes a thai home, but its a image of a temple and a monk
the fountain beside the house
again..
the street again

2006-08-12T10:02:00.000-07:00

the front of my house
the thai flag blowing in the wind
am in the window
the doorway

2006-08-12T09:59:00.000-07:00

the moon
more flowers
another view of the house
and again!!

2006-08-12T09:53:00.000-07:00

am and my host mom eating kfc

bunny the dogg
the moon!

Days 17 18 & 19 of Phuket

2006-08-12T08:30:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone! i havnt wrote a blog in 3days, i know sorry wont happen again!!
Thursday; i was still feeling sick, am was also sick as well so we both stayed home and jus rested and tryed to get better. which it helped and im feeling 90% better still have the stuffy nose, yuck worst part of it all. anyway today i didnt do much, but i did go to the mall and buy my sweet new digital SLR camera!! 9megapixels, 28-300mm zoom, video&sound, 10.7 optical zoom, 66.7mm lens, yeoww!! its amazing and i have amazing pictures to show with it. after we bought it, we did a little looking around in some thai stores. then went got supper at kfc, aha i cant escape it here in thailand,;/. then i came home took a bunch of pics:P and then went to bed early so i could make it to school tmr.

Friday; i went to school, and today was our ceremony for the queen(bc august 12 is mothers day & also the queens birthday) thier was also monks that we gave food & money and also did prayer, then we did the moring stuff, national anthem prayer, and we also sang for the queen as well, so it was a little longer than usual. So after that we had math first, to day was my first day back since tuesday and oaks first day back since friday(he doesnt go much bc he works). so today in math i sat with kim, but he had to write a test, so oak and bing came over and sat with me:). then we ate lunch, after that we had thai language, then koon and nung took me to a thai english teacher(Wai pa porn) and she will help me learn thai 3 hrs a week, so thats 5 hours altogether with the other teacher, ill be speaking in no time!. After that we went to history and today some of the studnets had history on thailand projects to present, (im goin with oaks group tmr(sunday), to help them film thier project. After that Tap(he sings the national anthem in the mornings for the school) sang the class a song, hes a really good singer!!. then we had club, which a few of us had cooking, we learned to make a dip for mangos, it stinks while making it tho. then it was the last period of the dayyy( here in thailand a usual day is 7;30-5 , but on fridays its 7;30-2 wich i cant complain:)) so our last class was physics, and me and oak didnt go bc they were writing a test, so we met up with bing( he was teaching another student math) while sitting it started to pour like crazy so we ran for shelter, and we were jus chilling and talkin till class was out, Am and egg met up wth me and we looked at some brochers for phi phi island, which me and am plan to go snorkling and see some amazing beacheSS:)) so excited!!!. so we said adios to bing oak egg and bings friend, and met up with my host dad, to go home!. we didnt really do anything that night, i did some launrdy and went on msn for awhile and eventually , just went to bed watching chicken little.

Saterday; i woke up and got ready around 10,0clock me and am went to town to drop off the movie i rented tuesday. after that we went to the "noodle garden" and ate some lunch, egg met up with us there and then we did a little shopping, and went to see garfield at the theatre wich they didnt have it in english at this cinnema, but i could understand it, it was funny. after that we did some more shopping, i jus looked around, iwanted to buy stuff, but i held back. after that we went and bought jasmine( which here in thailand u by for your mom on mothers day) am bought that for her mom, and i bought a rose for her instead, and when i gave it to her i said happy mothers day in thai:) she loved it. After that i had to quickly get ready and head to my rotary orientation, wich was my next host family, karins and her next host family, her current host mom, the president of the club, tanit manepeen lin and Pla. we talked about the rules and our speech/presentation next week which is 15mins and me talkin in thai about my family country hobbies and anything else intresting about me, or to fill up the time haha, but u all know me so i think i will have to be cut off bc i do talk to much ahah. also the trips we and karin will bc taking, one the trip up north of thailand, and another to laos, and bangkok for the district confrernce for like 4 days. after that lin me karin pla tanit and manepeen went to the sports center(where egg plays soccer) and had the celebration for the queens birthday, the six of us went on stage to place the statue thing on stage, after that it like poureddd and we all hid under the shelter thing untill it stoped, then the band played and sand the queens song and national anthem, then thier was fireworks it was awesome(got some cool pics). then we went out for supper at a seefood restraunt and met up with manepeens mom and sister/relatives, it was great. then we drove pla home(by karon beach) and then they droped me off and, im not writing this!, oy busy day, Tmr i was supposed to go to phi phi, but at 11 today thier was a earthquake in a neighbouring province to phuket so it wouldnt be safe or somthing to go by boat bc of the waves tmr, so maybe monday (bc thier is no school bc of a teachers confrence) anyway that was my 3 days sorry if i worried any of you, im fine jus my lack of sleep/time caught up to me and didnt get a chance to write them,
untill tmr!!
xoxo elyse
missing u all:(

Day 16 Of Phuket

2006-08-09T08:43:00.000-07:00

Hello everyonE! soo since sunday, ive had the cold running nose, sore throut and cough. this morning i was so sick, my host dad let me stay home, and get better na-eh was around to help me feel better, she made me rice soup, which was okay, not my favorite thing to eat. i took some tylnol and fell asleep till lunch, then back to sleep till 5. at this point i was so hot and the air wasnt cooling me down so i jus got up, and i felt a little bit better. i had to copy my passport and visa for the rotary club so i did that. i went to the meeting bc i didnt go last week because of sport week. at the meeting i saw pla & lin do some thai dancing, very cool. the 3 YE's leaving did thier speaches and got gifts from the rotary club. after that na-eh picked us up(me&am) and stpoed at 7eleven and got some coughdrops for me. after that i jus talked to a few friends back home nicole &arron, and im now goin to bed,
miss u all
xoxo elyse

Day 15 of Phuket

2006-08-08T06:41:00.000-07:00

Hello you fine readerS! Today is what i call a day at school!! today the morning ritual before class, wasn as fun, bc usually during the long announcements we can sit down, however earlier this morming it rained so it was all muddy and wed, so we had to croutch it was painful, so me and a few of the girls jus stood up lol. Our first class this morning was math which was okay, good thing i know my numbers otherwise id probly be still back in day one. our next class was english, which the teacher was a no-show (i kinda like the no subject class! haha) a guy and girl(omg im horrible, ill know it tmr) in my class taught me a new song, its a mothers day song, and mothers day is saterday (july 12) in thailand, so everyone sings the song and makes crads for thier mommys. Also he wanted to know what the french had realation to canada, also he wanted to hear canadas national anthem, i was kinda off-guard bc i dont sing well , but i did and tam joined in(YE that went to ontairo) it was he fun, he siad he liked it bc didnt know what any of it ment, so i tryed to help him a little bit, he kinda got it. After that it was guidance class, kinda boring but still its in thai, eventually ill be able to know whats goin on. Next it was pal, the class was all doin a sheet, and i was trying to do it, but writing and reading thai is hard bc its so small and hard on the eyes lol. Next was my favorite time of the day...LUNCH! at lunch we at the caferiteria thai food, its good depending on what u get. after we ate, we headed outside behind the field on the pavement, the boys were playing tagcor, its a game with a heavy plastic ball, that u kick in the air without letting it touch the ground, kinda like hacky-sac back home but a bigger ball. they asked me to join so i did it was fun:). then we started playing another game, which you use the same ball, and u kick on the ground, in the air, whatever you want, but u have to keep it away from the person in the middle, i didnt realize how much i missed gym, after playing this, i havnt been in gym for 3 yrs(tmr is my gym day, wednesdays) . After that we had bio, classes would be so much better if i knew what they were saying, soon enuff. next we had chemistry, it was boring at first, then we did a electricity experiment which was fun, but then the class was writing a test, so my teacher said i could leave and go on the computer, so i went on and talked to brendon doyle, who was a YE from canada that went to taiwan(he was in bangkok and changmai, he was gonna come to phuket, he even contatcted me thru email, but the days i lost my internet i couldnt get back to him and when i got it back it was saterday and he wanted to come thursday) that sucked but oh well he had a great time anyway. hes back in taiwan and leaves for canada on the 11th. then after that it was english class with the foreign teacher, they were supposed to write a test in this class, but the teacher didnt show up, so our class got out early:) yay so i went to the store got some Pop&chips, watched some kids play soccer and waited for am. after that am came and we got a drive in to phuket town with 4 of her friends and we got dropped off and went to swensens for some icecreaam:) man im gonna miss this icecream! egg met up with us there, then we went to watsons(a drugstore) cuz am had to geta few things. after that we jus chilled for a bit then na-eh picked us up and went to tesco and lotus mall to drop off some movies at the video store(Tsutaya) and i rented a movie ''uptown girls" haha i know lame, but i never saw it!. haha on the way home we got some supper and i ate that talked to emil&thorben wrote this and soon im gonna watch the movie!!!
miss u all
xoxoElyse<3

Day 14 of Phuket

2006-08-07T06:28:00.000-07:00

At oshisi's
oak and his mommy:)
na-eh(my host aunt) and am

Hello Everyone!!! today was the start of my 2nd week of school! and also my first full week, oyyy! anyway this morning was the usual hott wait, with the national anthem and prayer out in the field. after that i had math, which i was sitting by poom, sim, wang, mai, and toyoshi, they taught me some new words, and finally had thhe guts to ask me if i was single,haha it was a fun class. After class i went with sim poom toyoshi peao and his gf Plang to the teachers lounge, they needed to talk to our math teacher after class, so i went with them, and ended up being late for class and running back with peao and plang which is okay, bc teachers dont care if your late here at phuketwittayalai, which is a help to me, because everyone knows how ontime i am! lol:P so after that it was houseworking class(which right now for our class is done till october) probly my favorite class because in this class we dont do anything, and we have time to catch up on hw and for me get to know my classmates better also learn some new thai, today in this class noung taught me how to write my name in the thai characters, which they write really small, and im a big writer so ill have to work on that more, but i can write my name, even if its big!! some of the girls, mai gig plang and noung taught me the elephant song, which is cute! haha ill have to practice it tho:P last week oak attempted to teach me how to tell time, which when he did it seemed so difficult, but today the girls taught me and i got it right away!! :) yay. After that it was lunch time, most of the time the class sits together , and today was one of those days, which was cool bc we all had some good laughs which we always do in this class, plang's theory today for me was for everyone to talk to me in thai first, and if i didnt know what thier saying, jus say it in english the best they could. it worked and helped me alot, ill be fluent in no time, the writing& reading is the difficult part bc of the characters. After lunch we had thai lanuage, usually it inside the best airconditioned class probly in the whole school, besides the offices and teachers lounge(s) of course!, but anyway today my teacher decided to have our class outside(theres tables and chairs all around the school, we were at the back of the school at the end of the field) so thier was a nice breeze, our teacher told us to write a essay about sport week at our school, and he let me write in in english, i had alot to say, but not enuff paper, i finished before everyone and when bing may poom koon, and them saw me done, they were alll cheering and yelling oyyy and wooo ahaha surprised i was done, and knew what to write, everyone else took a little longer i guess bc they do it every year so its not so amazing like it was to me! haha so our next class was sweet, our teacher was absent and i guess there wasnt anyone to replace her, so we had two free periods of hanging out and chatting, lots of fun. koon and a few others asked for my number and i got thierS:) yay! some of the boys wanted me to show them how much thai i knew so i had to talk to them in thai, they were really happy and excited i was learning thai so quickly. After that it was on to physics, ugh so boring i could hardly keep my eyes open, first of all i had no idea really wat she was saying, and the fact it was physics. after the lecture, we did another experiment with water, the boys made it fun!! haha. after the experiment the class had to do an assingment the teacher didnt give me one, so i was jus kinda sitting there looking orver my thai, and she said i could leave early so egg called me and i met up with them at the front of the school, and we sat down at the tables, they were having something to eat, so i decided to go acrosss the street with egg and get some icecream and oreos while he got some pop. after that my host dad was there to pick us up, so we went home, and they had some company over again, that i ment before. there was a guy from autralia that he said hes been here for seven years and still doesnt know thai, he said mines better haha. anyway after that am wanted to go to oshisi's( the japanese restraunt, i went to saterday night) all u cant eatt:) anyway the food was awesome again, but i saw oak, who wasnt in school todaybc he had to work, hell be back to school on friday! anyway i finally met his mom, she is so nice, and very pretty szoai!. After the restraunt we went to bussiness store(kinda like business depot) and am bought some paper and ink for the printer, while i saw some sweet phuket postcards for 8baht each! (Pad baht) very good deal!:P anyway after that we just came home and now im writing this, so im probly gonna watch a movie and hit the hay,
miss u all so much
xoxo Elyse<3
p.s; i couldnt escape the cold here in phuket, my nose is so stuffed up and congested, ugh my luck is horrible i always have a cold when its summer conditions, i have it all year round :(

Day 13 of Phuket

2006-08-06T07:00:00.000-07:00

wow!
the mudy quicksand we walked through
Palm treeS!:)
i tryed to get a view of karon beach town, didnt work
Beautiful Karon beach

some of the beach/mtn's
some tourists flying a kyte

Am and egg, before we jumped in!
am aunts hotel, from the beach
me and egg
egg and me

egg and am
egg &am
Am& me.. haha i think the wave pushed us over jus before this pic
cool pic of me and the sand
the beach
me on karon beach
me again
another pool shot
side of the pool
infront of the pool Shot
Pool Shot
Egg & Am
Pretty FlowerS
Am Egg & Me
Am &Me
view of the beach from the pool

Hello my fan club:) today in phuket, i had another sleep-in day:) which i cant lie i love my extra sleep. after i woke up i watched a movie "the beach" which was filmed here in thailand off phuket, on phi phi islands, love that movie!. after that Am had to go to the dentist(she got her braces off) and egg met us there. after that we went to drop him off for his soccer game, at phuket sports center. We didnt eat lucnh yet, so me and Am went back to town and i tryed some asian Macdonalds, i got a big mac meal, its the same taste but the fries are alot more salty and the pop is our small, those thais really know how to get the $$ in. so for all of you who think macdonals in canada is the best, they basicaly make it the same everywhere!. there was a little mall behind macdonlads we did some looking around, didnt find anything, but we bought a soccer ball for the beach, at a sports store. after that egg was still playing, so at the sports center, there was apretty view of the ocean and beach(tho u cant swim here*not sure why. so i got some pics, and there was a boat out in the water, and the tide was out people were out diggin for clams, so i asked am if she wanted to walk to the boat with me, she did(bad idea tho, the mud starting turning to "quicksand" and we were getting nowhere so we decided to head back, and full of mud, we had to buy 8 bottles of water to get it all off, what a mission that was, on the beach i found some seashells for liam(my couzin he wanted me to bring some back for him). after that we went to get gas, his game still wasnt over so i got a drink and some icecream. we went back to the sports center and i saw another view of the ocean on the other side, so i have some more pics of that, finally his game was over, and we were headed to karon beach, me and egg played abit of soccer, while we were waiting for Am to change, i saw some guys flying a kyte, and the usual people swimming and tanning. Am changed and we were like lightening in the water, it was so warm and the waves were big(some days at this time of the year, you cant go swimming in thailand bc of the high waves and wind, but it wasnt a bad warning today so we go to go in. after swimming we went to ams aunts hotel, jus behind us and went in the pool, get rid of the salty water, we played some water soccer and got some fresh fruit from a local thai vendor, i had watermelon and they had papya and mango, very good:). so we had to leave, so we stoped at a store and got something to drink and some chips and stuff, we dropped egg off at his friend and me and am continued home. back home i jumped in the shower, and we ordered some food from down street, shrimp , beef and fried rice,yummy. so after that it was jus chillin, i watched some fear factor and csi, im probly gonna go to bed soon, school early in the morning. anyway today was great, cant wait for next weekend:)
lots of love
xoxo elyse<3
missing everyone

Day 12 Of phuket

2006-08-05T08:17:00.000-07:00

Tanit me karin her host mom&sister and Am my host sister

this like a fatire, bread&beef inside
japanese food!
me :P

Hello Everyone, this was the first day back with the internet, it wasnt working for like 4days so i really missed eveyone. today was a slow day,i got sleep in bc its the weeekend!!:) so today my plans didnt go as well as i thought, i was supposed to go to the market and karon beach with am&egg after she went to tutor , while she was gone i had a few chats with some friends back home mike sean evan steph & erin, and wrote a few emails, which was great and laura had a mint birthday,wish i was there, next year hunny;) after that i had a nap ate lunch and by the time am got back it was to late to go to the beach and i was leaving soon. tonight the ye karin from oregon,U.S was arriving in phuket at 8;45, so my club counsler Tanit and female counsler surapee came to pick me up, we talked here at the house for a while, waiting for am to get ready(she was coming and we were droping her off at the dentist so she could get her braces off) so we headed out to the dentist, but it was so busy that they told her to come back tmr, so we were going out for supper for japanese food at oshisi so she jus came with us, it was soo good, and it was all u can eat:) after that we went to the bathroom and looked around the mall, then we headed to the airport, along the way we picked up another rotary memeber(he came to the japanese restraunt before, i jus suck at names) then we got to the airport and we met karin and she went off on her journey with her host family to her new home, so we(tanit surapee me and Am and the other rotary memeber) were supposed to go bowling but it was late, so we just went home, but it was a fun night:) tmr am told me we will go to the beach, i hopee soo , i am dieing for some beach and sun!!!
im missing everyone
xoxoElyse<3

Day11 Of Phuket

2006-08-04T23:01:00.000-07:00

am and me
more people dressed up

girlies in my class:)

the banner
me
am

me after the parade

my green cheerleaders! my class is in there somewhere:P
me egg and am
some ppl that wanted me in thier picture
egg me and Am
view on the escalator in the mall
met up with some friends at the studio
at my school during sport day some guys dress up as girls for fun, and some jus want to be girls

Sawasdeeka AmeigoS!!! today was a veryy busy morning/day(friday), woke up at 5, got all our stuff together and headed out the door to the salon, stoped at a corner store to get some breakfast, man that was so good too. anyway we got at the salon, she did our makeup first, which i didnt like, but it was thai style and i guess i needed it, and i learned to like it. Then it was the hair, that was quick and easy so we got all our stuff on, then headed over to phuket stadium. we stoped for some pictures and chatted with some friends then it was down to the field , to set up. we were waiting for probly about 30mins and evetually things started to take place, me and am were holding the banner of ballons that annouced sport day and stuff. so many people came up to me and got pictures i was flaterd, even a bunch of my classmates came down to the field and got some of me!(which i want by the way!!) i walked by the green section and, and everyone cheered me on it was amazing, i <3 themm!! put a huge smile on my face anyway, so we walked around once and then came to the centre field and we were in the very front and everyone else was lined up in rows behind us. after the ceremony, we let the banner fly in the air, it was cool. we got more pictures and more taken of me, then me am egg and another friend, left to go to the mall(lotus) to get pictures in one of those photobooths, then went to get something to eat. we wanted professional pictures, so we went to the other mall(central phuket) but that place was closed, we ended up at a another and saw some friends i knew, but the camera broke so we left and continued looking, so many people told me i was beautiful today i cant even remember, :P i liked it a little bit! so we found a place and got some wikkid pics. we dropped off ams friend, and then headed to the park to kill some time, we were there for a bit then, went back to lotus mall for some swensens ice cream which is the best ice cream spot ever!!. ahh after that we did a little shopping, bought a few things. while in the mall we were in a sport store and these two guys from belguim came up to me( i was wear the crazy ourfit) and they were like " can we ask u a question??'' and i kinda nodded and they were like "do u speak english?'" yes.. lol then they asked "asked me where they could buy a jacuzzi( and theres a bath store behind wehere the sport store was but, they said they didfnt have any, and that they could find it, and me not knowing anything about where iwas, not even the adress where i live haha, asked me where they could get one. lol they were starting to leave then they asked where i got my outfit, i told them that i go to school and there was a big parade today, so then they said ohhh school uniform, haha not quite. so then i explained that a dressmaker made it. he asked me where he could get some outfits like that, bc he was here for a month to shoot a film, i had no idea where in phuket town it was, jus the name of it. so i got am to give me the number so he could call, but she doesnt speak english, but it was okay they had a thai guy with them so he could talk to her, they were really greatful and i was happy to help them, funny ive only been here 2weeks and i helped some1! the reason i put this in was is bc when he asked me for the number, i needed a pen, and i asked the lady for one in english but she didnt understand , and i learned the thai word for pen so i said it! i RemeberedDDDD :):):) im proud, i know it may not seem like a big deal, but it is to me, when u listen to people talk and have no idea what thier saying, but my thai is coming along quickly at times, in a month ill be fluent:P , anyway the word for pen in bahka. after that we were supposed to be back at the stadium for 3;30 but we were late and jus left. so we decided to go to see a movie, we saw miami vice. after that we just came home, and i called laura back home bc today is her birthday!!!!!! HaPPY 18th BIRTHDAY LAURA!!!!!!!!!!!:) we talked for a while, then she had to go to work , so i let her go. after that i called home, it was around 8 i dont know why nobody answerd so i just left a msg. so then i got a shower and started writing this, im starving so im waiting for supper, then gonna go watch amovie and head to bed. today was awesome, so much fun in the parade. very hott tho. Im super excited bc tmr were goin to the beach(karon) and i wil actually be swimming!!! yaya:P, anyway im gonna go before my insides become nothing.
love and miss u aLLLLLLLLL!!
xoxo Elyse<3